Dear all, While searching for interesting content we could publish and enrich on SlideWiki (SlideWiki.org) I found the OpenCourseWare Consortium and their courses:
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/courses I dug a little, but did not find many courses really openly licensed according to the open definition. Most of them are CC-NC-SA or even CC-NC-ND, which (according to my understanding) do not conform to the open definition. I find the restriction to non-commercial quite unnatural and do not think that there are really benefits for the authors/publishers by limiting commercial reuse - they do not seem to offer commercial licenses anyway. On the other hand, allowing (small) educational business (e.g. in developing countries) to reuse their content could increase the impact of OpenCourseWare a lot. Does anyone know whether this topic was discussed somewhere already? or Do you think something (advocating truly open licenses for OCW) should be done in this regard? Best, Sören -- Working on LOD2 - from Linked Data 2 Knowledge: http://lod2.eu -------------------------------------------------------------- Sören Auer, AKSW/Computer Science Dept., University of Leipzig http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer, Skype: soerenauer _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
